Feeling like Retirement

In some ways, this month of waiting to discover the next step in our journey is a lot like retirement. We can wake up at anytime that we want to, find ways to keep ourselves entertained, and find ourselves wanting a rocking chair and binoculars to watch the birds. I've found it hard not having something accountable to pry me out of the bed in the morning. We thought it would be a good idea to move a month before school started for me, but it's been a little more difficult than first thought. The bils are still there, the familiarity is not; the days still roll, the money doesn't; the house hold chores still pile up, social invitations do not. It is certainly a "biding time" sort of season in our lives.

Some good news, Tracy had an interview with a nanny service who might have a family for her and got to help with a church's preschool for the chance to earn a little extra cash and possible connections. Some bad news, I found out one of the churches I was talking to has called off the search for the youth director because of financial problems. Of course, if I could call them and tell them I would work for less pay, I would. Regardless, God's blessings on them as they experience this problem so many other churches are facing as well.

Dory's getting to know most of the neighborhood cats. I don't use that term lightly. The community takes in strays fixes them and lets them roam around the neighborhood while different people feed them. That's right other people feed the strays....not us. However, they end up right there in front of our house baiting Dory to tear up the blinds and jump out the window to come and play. Oh well, she's rediscovering the leash as we've had to readjust after she didn't have to worry about it for 4 years or so.

I'm about to finish my reading of Gulliver's Travels or The Grapes of Wrath: I haven't decided. That, coupled with Atlanta's local stations via our high tech rabbit ears, will keep me entertained while Tracy works (I'm saying when, not if).
I do have an opportunity to talk with the youth director with Atlanta's biggest Presbyterian church next week for a possible internship which may be pretty cool.

Prayers: Man what happened to Haiti pretty much sucks all around. I certainly lift up that country as a whole in their decision making and many losses. It's crazy how small my own problems seem in comparison to that but we serve a God who cares just as much about each problem individually. Natural events happen and sometimes we get in the way of them and this was one of those situations. Second prayer is for my Uncle JD's family. He died at the age of 91. WOW! I hope I can stay around that long. He was a fun guy and I remember his and my long walks in Mountain View, Arkansas and his feeding me an eskimo pie when finished. I really liked him and thank God for his life.

All right, those are my ramblings,
Peace